Good Day. I have this drive in a Dell XPS2 laptop. It came stock with the unit. I just tried, for the first time, to burn some dvd's. With the stock Sonic software, it only shows me burning at 4x speeds....without giving me the option of 8x, which, I believe, it's supposed to be able to do. I'm using Benq 8x DVD+R media.

I'm wondering if this is a firmware issue. I have no idea....I'm talking none, zip, nada....about flashing firmware or even if this might be the issue.

I've checked the properties of the drive and, I believe, the firmware version is 102c.